The South Metro Chapter stands:

• Strong with members that give their time, energy and money;
• Strong with corporate sponsors to support our educational and community initiative;
• Strong with all socially and spirituallycommunity partners;
• Strong with the desire to make a difference one youth at a time

Men Building Bridges for Our Youth

• To create programs that address the many challenges facing our youth;
• To establish career preparation through education and goal setting;
• To serve as role models demonstrating values such as, integrity, tenacity and commitment;
• To present positive alternatives to substance abuse, crime and high truancy rates;
• To reinforce the values and the principles of personal responsibility, self-discipline and healthy behavior

The Pillars of our organization are: Mentoring, Education, Health and Wellness, Economic Development and Leadership.

Mentoring - The 100 Black Men of South Metro, Inc. seek out those youth in the community who need father figures, role models, counselors, disciplinarians, and a life that has choices. These choices that are not about drugs, violence, school dropout, and prison sentences. Other choices include college opportunities, entrepreneurships and self worth.

The 100 Black Men of South Metro, Inc. provide success-producing opportunities for youth through specific organizational programs.

Rites of Passage

The 100 Black Men of South Metro, Inc. provides a bridge – Rites of Passage – from adolescence to adulthood for youth in the South Metro area of Atlanta.  The program consists of twenty-two weeks of intensive training in male/female relationships, career selection, etiquette, business, educational field trips, politics/current events, and individual and group presentations. This program has impacted in excess of 1000 youth formally since its existence. Today, we are proud to say we are the brand of choice when our community needs a mentor, a confidant and one they can rely on.

Each member takes personal responsibility for a one-on-one relationship with a young man.  The relationship includes a holistic approach that grooms the young man for the demands and expectations of a successful adult life.  Each young man is matched with a member of the 100 Black Men of South Metro, Inc. whose occupation most closely relates to the student’s career field of choice.  The program culminates with a Black Tie affair (Southern Crescent Beautillion) held in April of each year.  At this event the senior students are presented to the community by their mentors as having achieved the status of manhood.  The Rites of Passage program is the embodiment of the African proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child.”

Click here to see a list of the mentees the 100 Black Men of South Metro has put in college.

If you are interested in enrolling your son in the Rites of Passage program, please review the guidelines here.

Education- The South Metro Chapter refuses to accept second class educational processes for our youth and community, by being a force and presence in the classroom, listening to our youth, reading to our youth, providing materials to make the learning process less challenging. Refusing to accept our children being labeled as special ed, behavior challenged or disciplinary subjects and rejecting the same old way of doing business. We have seen our youth be proud of successful men setting the example of what they can be. We assisted in establishing SAT tutorials and seen improvement in broad percentages. “Together we can Reach One Teach One.”

SAT Preparation

This is a preparatory program to assist high school students in achieving higher test scores. The SAT scores along with the academic record of a student are the primary considerations for college entrance. A high SAT score increases a student's consideration for academic scholarships.

Elementary School Reading

The early development of a child's language skills is critical to success in life. In this tutorial program a child's reading rate, comprehension and vocabulary are increased through one-on-one reading with specially trained instructors and member volunteers.

Health and Wellness - Our community is ravaged with issues that affect African Americans disproportionately, Aids, Prostrate cancer, Diabetes, High blood Pressure and others. We launched a major educational and awareness programs which offer health screening at no cost to the community. South Metro Doctors and Dentist working with local medical professional and organizations touch the lives of thousand who were at risk or needed our assistance. We will continue to reduce our health risk and increase the life span of the world’s most important commodity our people.  We are Real Men Giving Real Time

This program addresses disease prevention and health management through awareness and health management through awareness education. The youths participating in this program disseminates information on diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and other health-related problems that affect our community.

Economic Development- We seeks to build the future by preparing our youth family and community to the ever changing 21st century. Emphasizing the value of home ownership, self worth,  investments and saving for a rainy day. For many that rainy day is everyday. Corporations churches and others have accepted our invitation and are partnering with South Metro to facilitate change, provide opportunities, nurture the need and simply g give back. These efforts make our families stronger, our communities safer and our world better.

Leadership- We have established ourselves as Beacons of leadership by utilizing our diverse talents to create environments where our children are motivated to achieve and to empower our people to become self-sufficient shareholders in the economic fiber of the communities we serve. South Metro’s leadership has not been static but has been dynamic as we work to build on our leadership role and create environments where leaders are born trained and developed.